Josef Rist (Bochum): Conversion in a late antique city: The Life of Bishop Porphyry of Gaza by Mark the DeaconRaffaella Cribiore (New York): The sophist Libanius as a grey pagan
Wolf Liebeschuetz (Nottingham) A view from Cyrrhus: Theodoret’s ‘Affectionum graecarum curatio’Samuel Provost (Nancy): Living side by side in a changing urban landscape: Christians, Pagans and Jews in Philippi (4th-6th centuries)

12:30-1:30 lunch break

1:30-3:00 pm Religion and PhilosophyChair: Marianne Sághy (Budapest)

Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (Paris) Relations between philosophical and religious traditions at the beginning of the Christian era : two new digital research toolsRóbert Somos (Pécs): Sentences as elements of philosophia moralis: Adaptations of a pagan literary form in the Works of Rufinus of AquileiaMaël Goarzin (Lausanne): Pagan and Christian biography in late antiquity: On the importance of practical life for pagan and Christian philosophers

Jerome Lagouanère (Paris) The figure of ‘Paganus’ in the Works of Augustine of HippoLinda Honey (Calgary) Religious profiling in the Miracles of St. TheklaMonika Pesthy Simon (Budapest) Martyres versus PharmakoiVolker Menze (Budapest) The dark side of holiness: Fear, punishmen

Joseph Grzywaczewski (Paris): Sidonius Apollinaris’s pagan vision of Roma bellatrix in Christian RomeLucy Grig (Edinburgh): Late antique popular culture and the creation of “paganism”: the Case of the Kalends of JanuarySofie Remijsen (Leuven): Christianizing the rhythm of life? Sundays in late antique papyriJaclyn Maxwell (Ohio): Social relations and status anxiety across religious divides in late antiquity